The Reading Zone, 2nd Edition: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers

Long advocates of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the authors draw on evidence gathered in 20 years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them.

2015 Global Teacher Prize winner Nancie Atwell shares strategies for helping students become skilled, passionate, habitual, and critical readers.

KEY FEATURES:

1. Discusses the real meaning of close reading, collaborative, and literary discussions
2. Focuses on teacher-student reading conferences
3. Provides an emphasis on the content-rich nature of fiction
4. Links to expert-tip videos

New chapters included:

• Writing About Reading
• Literary Discussion
• In Defense of Fiction

Nancie Atwell founded the Center for Teaching and Learning in 1990. She is a former grades 7-8 teacher of writing, reading, and history and is currently a writing support teacher. She is the first classroom teacher to receive the major research awards in the field of language arts, the M.L.A. Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize and the National Council of Teachers of English David H. Russell Award. She has won many other awards for her contributions to education; most recently, she became the first recipient of the Global Teacher Prize, presented by the Varkey Foundation. She is the co-author of The Reading Zone, Second Edition: How to Help Kids Become Passionate, Skilled, Habitual, Critical Readers (Scholastic).